MariaDB contains many new options and optimizations which, for compatibility or other reasons, are not enabled in the default install. Enabling them helps you gain extra performance from the same hardware when upgrading from MySQL to MariaDB. Monty thought this would be a good article for the Knowledgebase and I agree. I've created a stub article for this using a few short items Monty provided (just to get the ball rolling), and I am now soliciting suggestions from any and all of you so I can expand it. https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-optimization-for-mysql-users/ Please send me your MariaDB-only tips and recommended settings and other things people should enable or tweak after upgrading to MariaDB and I'll add them to the page (or feel free to do it yourself). Thanks! -- Daniel Bartholomew Google+ - http://gplus.to/dbart Twitter - http://twitter.com/daniel_bart MariaDB: An Enhanced Drop-in Replacement for MySQL Website - http://mariadb.org Twitter - http://twitter.com/mariadb Google+ - http://google.com/+mariadb Facebook - http://fb.com/MariaDB.dbms Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com